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Upcoming Events for Andersonville Chamber of Commercehttp://business.andersonville.org/events/details/families-together-cooperative-nursery-school-admissions-event-info-8468
01/10/2018 - Families Together Cooperative Nursery School Admissions Event Info<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Looking for an exceptional preschool for the 2018-19 school year? Families Together Cooperative Nursery School&nbsp;in Edgewater offers a welcoming school community with outstanding&nbsp;teachers, a research-based approach to learning through play, and a commitment to social justice and anti-bias practices.&nbsp;<br />
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Families Together was founded by parents with a desire to be active in their children&rsquo;s first school experience. Our programs ensure each student&#39;s social-emotional, cognitive, creative and physical development through engagement in our thoughtfully designed classrooms and surrounding outdoor environments. Our curriculum is built around the children&rsquo;s emerging interests and natural sense of wonder, helping to instill self-esteem and nurture enthusiasm for learning. Annual tuition is based on a sliding fee&nbsp;scale relative to a family&rsquo;s income level.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">We&#39;re hosting <strong>admissions coffee tours</strong> on select Tuesday and Wednesday mornings throughout the school year.&nbsp;Our adults-only coffees provide a comprehensive view of our school&#39;s emergent curriculum philosophy, our play-based environment, our focus on anti-bias practices, and our&nbsp;cooperative model. You&#39;ll speak with our Director and current parents, and take a tour of our classrooms while school is in session. Attendance at an admissions coffee is mandatory for enrollment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Our two <strong>Saturday open houses</strong> in January and February are casual drop-in events where children (and their siblings) can play in the classroom and parents can chat with our teaching staff and current parents. Refreshments provided. Open houses are not required admissions events, but they are a great way to get more of a &quot;feel&quot; for the school.&nbsp;</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">We offer two, three, four, or five day-per-week classes for 2 1/2- to 5-year-olds.&nbsp;We also offer a Monday through Friday lunch enrichment program and a summer camp for enrolled students.&nbsp;Children must be between 2 1/2- and 5-years-old by September 1, 2018 to enroll.&nbsp;Applications are due on March 1, 2018.&nbsp;<br />
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For a complete list of all upcoming admissions coffees and our winter open house dates, and to&nbsp;learn more about our programs, visit our website at:&nbsp;<a href="http://ftcns.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.ftcns.org</span></a></span>. RSVP for a coffee at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:admissions@ftcns.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">admissions@ftcns.org</span></a></span>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="tel:(773)%20381-5200" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">773-381-5200</span></a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;http://business.andersonville.org/events/details/2018-beat-meetings-chicago-police-20th-district-6397
01/17/2018 - 2018 Beat Meetings - Chicago Police 20th Districthttp://business.andersonville.org/events/details/hinter-6374
01/19/2018 - Hinter<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:helvetica,helvetica_msfontservice,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:inherit">Whispers and rumors had been swirling around the Gruber family farm long before the bodies were discovered on that cold&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:helvetica,helvetica_msfontservice,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:inherit">April</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:helvetica,helvetica_msfontservice,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:inherit">&nbsp;day. It&#39;s 1922, and a remote community in Bavaria is reeling in the aftermath of World War I: gender roles are shifting, a generation gap is emerging, and farmers are battling poverty in the shadow of a growing urban Intelligentsia. Inspired by a chilling and true unsolved crime,&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:helvetica,helvetica_msfontservice,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:inherit">Hinter</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:helvetica,helvetica_msfontservice,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span style="background-color:inherit">&nbsp;is a darkly comic thriller by one of Chicago&rsquo;s most exciting new playwrights.</span></span>http://business.andersonville.org/events/details/inspired-contemporary-swedish-folk-paintings-and-haiku-paintings-by-hans-%C3%B6hman-8480
01/19/2018 - INSPIRED: CONTEMPORARY SWEDISH FOLK PAINTINGS AND HAIKU PAINTINGS BY HANS ÖHMAN<strong><em>Exhibit Opening, Friday, Jan. 19, 6 p.m. &ndash; 9 p.m.<br />
Gallery Walk, Saturday, Jan. 20, 11 a.m.<br />
Start with Art, Friday, Feb. 23, 9 a.m. - noon<br />
Family Night, Friday, Feb. 23, 4 p.m. &ndash; 6 p.m.</em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Exhibit Closes, Sunday, March 18, 4 p.m.</span></span></em></strong><br />
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Hans &Ouml;hman is an artist living in V&auml;rmland, Sweden. When he was 23 years old, Hans started to search for the true meaning and purpose of his life, a search that lead him to the Baha&rsquo;i Faith. Hans used art as a means in the process and realized that he had a talent for it. Because art is much encouraged in the Bah&aacute;&rsquo;&iacute; Faith it became his calling.<br />
Today Hans and his wife are working to establish an art garden/art center at Norra Mon. A place where people can come to relax and enjoy the garden and caf&eacute; during the summer months or join a course or program. Hans wanted to create a place where people can come in search of inner peace and creativity.<br />
The upcoming exhibit is a presentation of two different styles of art. One is decorative and based on an older traditional way of painting furniture and walls. Hans&rsquo;s grandfather restored paintings in churches and built furniture that were decorated in a regional style. This has inspired Hans to create a style that is more contemporary and free. The other style is philosophical. It is based on the kind of haiku poetry that expresses the span between micro and macro cosmos. These are all watercolor paintings. It is a relatively fast technique and the challenge is to catch the right moment when to add next step in the painting process. Sometimes they challenge him to write a poem.http://business.andersonville.org/events/details/available-light-by-erika-r%C3%A5berg-8481
02/08/2018 - Available Light by Erika Råberg<h2><span style="color:windowtext; font-size:12pt">Erika R&aring;berg is a Swedish-American artist working with both still and moving images to explore the intricate relationship between language, image, and sound. At the Swedish American Museum, R&aring;berg will share work made over the course of many years on the farm in rural V&auml;rmland, Sweden, that has been in the family since the early 1600s. In one short film, her father and eleven-year-old cousin play variations on a Swedish folk tune as they move about the farmhouse, a call and response between past and present. A newer companion piece explores the fleeting feeling of fall during harvest time. Themes of intimacy and distance, sense of place, and sense of home emerge, with archival material woven into present-day footage. </span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:windowtext; font-size:12pt">Recent exhibitions include the Elmhurst Art Museum, ACRE Projects, COLLABO as part of Second Floor Rear, Chicago Artists Coalition, Roman Susan, the InVisible Culture Retrospective at the University of Rochester, and a project in collaboration with Kelly Lloyd for the 2017 Terrain Biennial.</span></h2>
<h2><span style="color:windowtext; font-size:12pt">R&aring;berg earned her MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015, and was a Research Fellow at the Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration in 2015-16. R&aring;berg was recently the recipient of a grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation in New York, and is currently a guest artist in project studies at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm, Sweden.</span></h2>
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02/21/2018 - Lenten Soup Suppershttp://business.andersonville.org/events/details/bodies-at-ease-02-21-2018-1270
02/21/2018 - Bodies at Easehttp://business.andersonville.org/events/details/david-jay-collins-reads-gaybash-and-summerdale-8411
02/21/2018 - David Jay Collins Reads Gaybash and Summerdalehttp://business.andersonville.org/events/details/2018-beat-meetings-chicago-police-20th-district-02-21-2018-6398
02/21/2018 - 2018 Beat Meetings - Chicago Police 20th Districthttp://business.andersonville.org/events/details/dialectical-behavioral-therapy-dbt-group-02-21-2018-1470
02/21/2018 - Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Group